Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts. Her film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award.
"Memories Are Made of This" is a popular song about nostalgia, written in 1955 by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller. They were the members of a three-pieced group called "The Easy Riders", who served as a backing band for Dean Martin's version of this song, also released in 1955.
Freddy Quinn is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. As Hans Albers had done two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends. Quinn's Irish family name comes from his Irish-born salesman father, Johann Quinn. His mother, Edith Henriette Nidl, was an Austrian journalist. He is often associated with the Schlager scene.
Karl-Heinz Reincke was a German-born actor, long-based in Vienna.
Jan Hendriks was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films on screen and TV between 1950 and 1985. In 1952 he won the German Film Award as Best Male Newcomer. Between 1977–1985 he co-starred in the TV-crime-serial The Old Fox. He died in Berlin, Germany, aged 63.
Beloved Impostor is a 1961 German comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Elke Sommer and Dietmar Schönherr. It is based on a play by Jacques Deval.
William McCreery Ramsey was an American-German jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor famous for his German-language hits. He returned to Germany a year after he had served compulsory military service with the U.S. Air Force there. Active as a singer of jazz and pop already as a soldier, he made a career in different fields of musical entertainment. He sang and recorded German schlager, also German-language cover versions of English hits, jazz and swing. He appeared in films and television series, and ran popular series on radio and television as presenter.
The Ideal Woman is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Josef von Báky and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Martin Benrath and Boy Gobert. Fanny Becker, the mayor of Rosenburg, meets a former lover and is tempted to resume her romance with him, but eventually decides to remain with her husband.
Ullrich Haupt was an American-born German actor. His father, also named Ullrich Haupt, was a German actor who worked in Hollywood films, but he returned to Germany following his father's death in 1931.
Beppo Brem was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characters, but managed to find respect as a character actor in later years.
The Heart of St. Pauli is a 1957 West German musical film directed by Eugen York and starring Hans Albers, Hansjörg Felmy and Jürgen Wilke. The film is set in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg and was an attempt to capitlise on the success of Alber's earlier starring role in Große Freiheit Nr. 7. It was made by the Hamburg-based studio Real Film.
Homesick for You is a 1952 West German musical film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Margot Hielscher, Peter Pasetti and Josefin Kipper.
Dancing in the Sun is a 1954 West German musical film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Cécile Aubry, Franco Andrei and Ursula Justin. It was shot on location in Hamburg and Andalucía.
Hein Riess was a German actor and folk singer.
Not Afraid of Big Animals is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Ulrich Erfurth and starring Heinz Rühmann, Ingeborg Körner and Gustav Knuth. It is a circus film and a remake of the French film Le Dompteur (1938). It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios of Real Film in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff.
Money from the Air is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Josef Meinrad, Lonny Kellner, and Grethe Weiser.
Freddy in the Wild West is a 1964 West German/Italian musical Western film directed by Sobey Martin and starring Freddy Quinn, Rik Battaglia, and Beba Lončar. Playing a small role of Olivia is Mamie Van Doren, a 1950s Hollywood sex goddess. It was co-produced with and shot on location in SFR Yugoslavia. It was one of a crop of western-set German films made in the 1960s, many of them based on works of Karl May. It is also known by the alternative title of The Sheriff Was a Lady.
Homesick for Germany is a 1954 West German adventure film directed by Bernhard Radetzki and starring Albert Lieven, Ingrid Lutz, and Petra Peters. It is also known as Adventure in Lebanon (German: Abenteuer in Libanon.
The False Adam is a 1955 West German comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Waltraut Haas, Rudolf Platte and Doris Kirchner.
